A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Better be a chameleon to face this ever changing world.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul.

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.